Gig Harbor sits on the Kitsap Peninsula across Puget Sound from Tacoma, a maritime town where the water is never far from view and the Pacific Northwest's signature fir and cedar forests press in close. Madrona Links takes its name from the madrone tree — that distinctive Pacific Coast native with peeling reddish bark and glossy leaves — and the course lives up to its namesake, playing through the kind of wooded, rolling terrain that defines golf in this corner of Washington State.
As a public layout, Madrona Links has served the Gig Harbor community for decades, offering accessible everyday golf in a region not short on scenic options. The par-71 configuration suggests some design variety in how the holes are balanced, and the tree-lined nature of the layout rewards accuracy over raw distance.
The broader Puget Sound region has a devoted year-round golf culture, and courses like this one are its backbone — not destination marquee names, but honest, well-used tracks where locals actually learn the game and keep coming back.
